miercuri, 12 iulie 2017

US military savagely trolls ISIS after reports that leader Baghdadi is dead

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Jul 11, 2017

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British man Luke Rutter killed fighting Isil in Syria

A British man killed fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) filmed a video before his death where he apologised to his family for not telling them he was going to Syria. Luke Rutter, 22, was killed last week during the battle to drive Isil fighters from Raqqa, their self-declared capital in northern Syria. He is the fourth Briton to die fighting with the Kurds. Mr Rutter, who was from Birkenhead in Merseyside, joined the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in March but reportedly told his family that the was volunteering for the French Foreign Legion. In a video recorded before his death, he apologised for the deception. YPG announces English volunteer Luke Rutter (Soro Zinar) KIA in Raqqa on July 6 pic.twitter.com/ZKLX3ePAgM— Mutlu Civiroglu (@mutludc) July 11, 2017 Sitting in a field with an AK-47 across his lap, he said: “I lied to people I care about to come here. I said that I was going somewhere else, I didn’t. I apologise massively for that. Aside from that I don’t regret my decision and I hope you respect it. His death was announced in a statement by the YPG, which said that he died so “all the people of the world may have a free life”. A Kurdish fighter from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) looks at a smoke after an coalition airstrike in Raqqa Credit: GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS His death was announced in a statement by the YPG, which said that he died so “all the people of the world may have a free life”. Kimmie Taylor, a British woman fighting alongside Kurdish fighters, posted “rest in peace, comrade” on Facebook in response to news of Mr Rutter’s death. Mr Rutter was killed alongside an American volunteer named Robert Grodt. Mr Grodt came to prominence during the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2012 when he was filmed coming to the aid of a woman who had been pepper sprayed by a New York police officer. The British volunteer was given the Kurdish nom-de-guerre Soro Zinar by his Kurdish comrades. In the video he speaks of having “nothing very significant” in his educational history but was put through weapons and language training with the YPG before being sent to the front lines. Isil defeated in Mosul after three years 01:15 Jesper Söder, a Swedish fighter with the YPG, said he heard Mr Rutter had been a good recruit. “I knew who he was although I didn’t serve with him directly. From everything I heard he did very well in training and was a good fighter,” he told The Telegraph. Mr Rutter was part of a unit fighting with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed rebel group made up mainly of Kurds but also some Arabs. The SDF is leading the assault on Raqqa with air support from the US-led coalition against Isil. He is believed to have been killed during an ambush on the outskirts of Raqqa on July 5. “Our comrade Soro was martyred in the right against Daesh fascism,” the YPG said, using Mr Rutter’s Kurdish nickname and a disparaging Arabic name for Isil. The Rutter family could not be reached for comment. Three other British volunteers have died fighting for the Kurds against Isil. Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, a former Royal Marine was killed in March 2015 while fighting in northeast Syria. Dean Carl Evans, a farmer from Reading, died during the offensive to take back the town of Manbij on the Syrian-Turkish border in July last year. Ryan Lock, a chef from West Sussex, shot himself rather than being taken prisoner in fighting just before Christmas 2016. The emergence of Isil

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Rebels say they shot down Syria warplane near ceasefire zone

Rebel groups shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday near a ceasefire zone in the country’s south, the factions and a monitoring group said. Two rebel groups that operate in southeast Syria, the Lions of the East Army and the Ahmad al-Abdo Forces, issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they had downed the aircraft. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor confirmed that the rebel groups had hit the plane near a village on the administrative border between the provinces of Rural Damascus and Sweida.

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In Raqqa, the impact of ISIS is all around

Now he is just a few miles from his old home, but his old life is gone. He saw his family for the first time in years just the day before he spoke to CNN. They were fleeing the city as his unit clashed with ISIS militants. He didn’t recognize them and they could barely recognize him. He had left a boy, he was now a man, a fighter. „When I speak to them now, our conversation feels empty. There is nothing to say. I am not at ease and neither are they,” he said. „When we are safe and the battle is over, I can rejoin them again.” MUST WATCH ‘We fight for peace’ For Inghazik, an SDF commander, her home may be gone forever. Like many in the SDF she believes it is her duty to rid Syria of ISIS, from